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<span class=large>ECCLESIASTES</span><br/> OR, THE PREACHER
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CHAPTER 12
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At death the spirit shall return to God who gave it—The words of the wise are as goads—The whole duty of man is to fear God and keep his commandments.
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Remember</span> now thy Creator in the days of thy <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/12/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 37: 35.">youth</a>, while the <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/12/1b" mark="b" type="A" title="Eccl. 11: 8.">evil</a> days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
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While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
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In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,
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And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;
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Also <i>when </i>they shall be afraid of <i>that which is</i> high, and fears <i>shall be</i> in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/12/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Job 17: 13; Alma 40: 11.">home</a>, and the mourners go about the streets:
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Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
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Then shall the <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/12/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Man, Physical Creation of; TG Mortality.">dust</a> return to the earth as it was: and the <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/12/7b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Death; TG Man, Antemortal Existence of; TG Spirit Body; TG Spirit Creation; TG Spirits, Disembodied.">spirit</a> shall return unto God who <sup>c</sup><a href="eccl/12/7c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Man, A Spirit Child of Heavenly Father.">gave</a> it.
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&#182; Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all <i>is</i> vanity.
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And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, <i>and</i> set in order many proverbs.
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The preacher sought to find out <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/12/10a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB words of delight.">acceptable</a> words: and <i>that which was</i> written <i>was</i> upright, <i>even</i> words of truth.
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The words of the wise <i>are</i> as <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/12/11a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE sharp-pointed sticks to spur oxen onward.">goads</a>, and as nails fastened <i>by </i>the masters of assemblies, <i>which</i> are given from one shepherd.
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And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books <i>there is</i> no end; and much <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/12/12a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Study.">study</a> <i>is</i> a weariness of the flesh.
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&#182; Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/12/13a" mark="a" type="F" title="OR Revere God; TG Reverence.">Fear</a> God, and <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/12/13b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Obedience.">keep</a> his commandments: for this <i>is</i> the whole <sup>c</sup><a href="eccl/12/13c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Duty; TG Mission of Early Saints."><i>duty</i></a> of man.
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For God shall bring every <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/12/14a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Good Works."><i>work</i></a> into <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/12/14b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Judge; TG Judgment, The Last.">judgment</a>, with every secret thing, whether <i>it be</i> good, or whether <i>it be</i> evil.
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